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Rust Programming Cookbook

You're reading from   Rust Programming Cookbook Explore the latest features of Rust 2018 for building fast and secure apps

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789530667
Length 444 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Claus Matzinger Claus Matzinger
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Starting Off with Rust FREE CHAPTER 2. Going Further with Advanced Rust 3. Managing Projects with Cargo 4. Fearless Concurrency 5. Handling Errors and Other Results 6. Expressing Yourself with Macros 7. Integrating Rust with Other Languages 8. Safe Programming for the Web 9. Systems Programming Made Easy 10. Getting Practical with Rust 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Complex conditions with pattern matching

As shown in the previous recipe, pattern matching is very useful with enums. However, there is more! Pattern matching is a construct that originates in functional languages and curtails much of the choice between conditional branches and the assignment of properties in struct that commonly follows. These steps are taken at once, reducing the amount of code on the screen and creating something akin to a higher-order switch-case statement.

How to do it...

Just a few steps need to be followed in order to learn more about pattern matching:

  1. Create a new binary project using cargo new pattern-matching. This time, we'll run an actual executable! Again, open the project using Visual...
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